Michael Strahan's daughter Isabella is sharing the emotional moment that she got to ring the bell after completing radiation treatment for cancer. In a YouTube vlog, the 19-year-old, who had a brain tumor removed in October, shared that she is one step closer to being done with treatments.
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"I’m very excited to finally be done," the teen said in the video. She has created a webseries that will focus on her journey through treatments for medulloblastoma, a malignant tumor, in her cerebellum.
"It’s been a long six weeks and I’m very happy to finally heal my head after all of this because the side effects and everything get to you," she admitted in the video.
Hospital staff at the New York Proton Center, as well as her family, were on hand with signs congratulating the teen on being finished with treatment. Isabella was in tears as she hugged her dad and twin sister Sophia. "So excited to ring that bell… Never thought I’d be ringing the bell," she said.
At the end of the vlog, Isabella shared that she would be sitting down on Good Morning America to talk about her cancer diagnosis. In the episode which has already aired, she sat down with her father and interviewer Robin Roberts to talk about life since her surgery.
The next thing for her is to start chemotherapy at Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center in Durham, North Carolina next month. "I'm ready for it to start and be one day closer to being over. …. I'm very excited for this whole process to wrap. But you just have to keep living every day, I think, through the whole thing," she said.
"I just hope anyone who sees this knows that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that things will get better because every day is another day closer to getting better and closer to feeling better," she said in her first vlog. "Progress takes a lot of time… try to see the positive things."
